京のキー 8:15 am

8:15 am

It was at exactly 8.15am on August 6th that the Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima welcoming us to the nuclear age and levelling an entire city in the blink of an eye. The Peace Memorial Museum is a harrowing mixture of salvaged artifacts, personal stories and a more sweeping warning about nuclear proliferation.

The most startling items are also the most haunting: this watch, burnt and broken, stopped at the second the city was destroyed. It remains a potent reminder of the past and what could be our future.